A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves

In this scientific study, a neurologist presents a critical, startling, and expansive journey into the mysteries of the brain and what makes us human.

What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?

Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a decent understanding of what the mind is or how it works. The gap between what the brain does and...